Shanghai 247 started life as a single-celled alternative music and entertainment blog, and has since evolved into a multi-tendrilled complex organism whose higher functions include ticket sales, customer service and business consultancy

Its founders, Greig Charlton and Anna Bennett, recently spoke to host Adam Skuse about how they nurtured their creation through its growing pains to become the multi-faceted and successful little beastie that it is today.

They talked about finding new business ideas through serendipity, the creeping realisation of responsibility, and how hard work, self belief and a little alcohol pay dividends. There's also some stuff about ponies. Click here to visit one of Shanghai 247's many websites.